Sweetly Broken
The transformation of the Spirit and the Word of God radically changes the trajectory of our lives. We begin to develop an insatiable craving for the person and purposes of God. Being poor in spirit,…
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Educate Yourself
Sacred Craving
We shall continue to navigate our way through the Beatitudes. As Jesus teaches, He is setting the stage for His radical and counter-intuitive kingdom. He is reconstructing the hearts and the minds of the disciples…
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Meek, Not Weak
The poor in spirit are those who understand their spiritual bankruptcy, their moral destitution, and their desperate need before a sovereign and holy God. Radical transformation begins with demolition. This is the initial and fundamental…
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A Godly Sorrow
The poor in spirit are those who understand their spiritual bankruptcy and their desperate need before a sovereign God. This transformation of a life via God’s Spirit begins with a demolition of self-sufficiency and self-righteousness…
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The Affluent Poor
The fundamental characteristic of kingdom pilgrimage is that of being poor in spirit. This has nothing to do with voluntary poverty. Outward poverty is not essential to the kingdom. Outward wealth is not incompatible with…
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He Taught His Climbing Companions
The Beatitudes are impossible to accomplish through our natural tendencies and desires. They crush us to the ground. They fly in the face of self-confidence, self-sufficiency, and self-righteousness. They show us the absolute necessity of…
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Sacred Summit
Jesus’ most well-known discourse, the “Sermon on the Mount,” was delivered half way through the years of His public ministry. Before delivering the message, He spent the entire night in prayer. At daybreak, He began…
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Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
Jesus asked, “What shall we say that the kingdom of God is like, and what shall we use to describe it?” It is a kingdom which he initiated at the cross where he exposed the…
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Kingdom Language, Part 2
We must carefully and creatively bring the message of Jesus forward to the present day. How we do this is a theological pursuit as well as an artistic one. Several metaphors for “the kingdom of…
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